Amen.

No matter where you go there will be people who aren't satisfied until everyone else is as miserable as they are. And TV is certainly no exception to that.

Misery loves company. Even if you have to go out of your way to recruit it.

I find that store or restaurant employees aren’t too nice or helpful. But the neighbors are, yes, I’ve found that to be true.

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I have been living in The Villages since 2001 and love it more and more with each year. They only had Spanish Springs square at the time. I got to slowly learn my way around as they built all the different squares, stores, restaurants, etc. My sense of direction has always been bad and it helped to be able to grow with The Villages. If you move here now, expect to get lost a lot, but have fun. I plan to be here until the end of my life. It is a beautiful place to live.

We have been here since 2013, and are still enjoying it everyday, I have made several friends when providing help to them, and them lots more friends through bowling and occasional golfing.

Its not paradise or the frienliest place. we live down below 44 my wife went to the mail box and a guy in a red golf cart called her all the names he new and called her on thye phone so now i drive by his home all the time

This is encouraging to hear! I will be moving to TV ( closed on my home a few weeks ago) in 2 weeks . My 2 lifestyle visits were very positive and felt people were warm and friendly. I’m looking forward to making new friends and excited it may not be as challenging as I originally thought!

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That's the way it is sometimes... everything changes. When we built our home many years back now, Lake Sumter was the "new" area, and the square had not yet opened. Our neighborhood street was more than we ever dreamed, everyone offered to lend a hand, folks brought home made holiday cookies and candy sometimes, and we found many sheets of paper inside our screen door inviting us to bring a drink and a chair to various "driveway" get togethers. Everyone knew everyone, and all new arrivals were made to feel a part of the neighborhood. How things have changed, never dreamed folks would turn the largest model homes into short term rentals (at the time our thinking was that would be more likely to happen in villa neighborhoods where people just wanted an easier to maintain vacation home here), but now our small neighborhood has only 3 full time residents. Even when we walk over when we see the newest people checking in and out of the other homes, they just "nod" when we greet them, introduce ourselves, and point to our house, most NEVER even then introduce themselves ! The couple across the street brought one couple a lovely plate of home made macaroons, they did thank them, and then said, "pardon us, we've only got 3 nights here and we have a tee time". They (the neighbors across the street never again tried). Nothing stays the same, so yes, we do have to reach out further and further and "be a friend" to make a friend". Thankfully, all the activities and clubs here give us the ability to do that...would be very difficult to do where most of us came from, usually involved automobile trip to seek out such things.

Not challenging at all. If you're positive and encouraging you'll attract exactly those kinds of people.

Don't be put off by the occasional toad. We have 'em here, just like every place else. But in all honesty they're a rare critter.

If this is true?



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We found the opposite. The people at our Publix (Lake Deaton Plaza) are a delight. We've yet to have a server who wasn't pleasant.

Maybe we're just lucky...

There's got to be more to this story.

Oh, thanks GE. I get it now.

Congrats on the soon closing of your home here in TV! I think you just might find that this community will exceed your expections. You’ll have many new friends in no time! 😀

Were you lucky? I doubt it.

Service people are like everyone else. Polite and respectful treatment on the part of the customer usually elicits the same from the service person. However if someone comes across on the initial contact as rude and entitled, don't be surprised if the service person in question puts up a wall and becomes curt and distant. Self-preservation and all that. Or employs other techniques.

Best one I've ever seen was waaaaay back quite a few years ago. I was at a restaurant in northern MN. One of the waitresses (who I knew) was waiting on a table of four college-age guys who were giving her a pretty rough time. I was amazed that she had the aplomb to maintain her dignity and not retaliate in some manner. I was wrong: after a few minutes, while walking past their table with a tray full of water glasses (plastic), she tripped, barely able to maintain herself upright while grabbing the back of a booth. As it happened the booth was the one occupied by the four boors. Unfortunately she lost control over the tray; the water glasses when every which way and pretty much soaked the guys in the booth.

You reap what you sow.

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At one year I'm still drinkin' it!

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Its always a wonderful day in the neighbor hood, a wonderful day to be neighborly. Best place in the world bar none. Just leave it for a while and you will see. You will come back very grateful.
Tough world out there.

i now go buy his home and i will get to see him and tell him his wife

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My impression is that the Kool-Aid reference was started by deeply jealous and unhappy people. Probably who couldn’t afford to live in TV for various reasons. And possibly some misfits who would not get along with people anywhere. Not that TV is perfect but….

OP, I agree The Villages is a friendly place to retire. Most other retirement communities are friendly and smaller too. That said, The Villages size gives us opportunities to so many activities that others don’t have and can’t sustain. 140,000 residents, continued growth, and many over 65 does create a “cocktail” of issues for the medical community serving The Villages. A subject of several other Threads in what is known as “Florida’s Healthiest Hometown”.

Don’t forget Saturday is post office food drive you can leave donations at any postal facility in villages , they did put a card in the mail but I thought a little reminder would help , it’s the biggest food drive in USA

It would be so helpful when a poster is not living in TV, that their name would be A Special Color. At least you understand why they are so aggressive with the negative answers.

What we appreciate is all the landscaping, and those working who, brave all of the crazy car and cart drivers, while they keep this place beautiful. Please slow down when you see them edging along the paths and roads